@18:00 after some trial and error I have fallen in love with tangs. I can also concur that offering them nori with a veggie mag clip next to some flow is essential at least every once in a while. The good nori from the store. Not wild nori or any other nori. I lost one blue tang so I dove in and researched all I could. Now I'm here. My yellow tang is doing great. Also considered a little more hardy than the powder blues. Tangs are awesome in my opinion. I love their grazing always active nature. More similar to myself. lol.
These guys have helped me in my first 6 months of having a new tank so much.... They're literally the wiki/howto of fish... Period, hands down... Brilliant guys...
I feed vitalis flake/pellets...also nori and brine shrimp with garlic... and never once have I had a disease and I’ve had my regal and others since they were babies 5 years ago
I have a mated pair of Diamond Gobies. They eat daily. I turn all of the pumps off so the water is still. I start with flakes for the clowns, Tang, etc. I then take a large pinch of Pellets (1.2 mm or smaller) and submerge my fingers in the water. Then the Pellets slowly fall and the normal fish eat them on the way down and most of them fall on the sand bed. The gobies quickly go to work eating the Pellets. The flakes or frozen will also fall down eventually and they will eat that as well. Leave the pumps off for 15 or 20 min to let them consume the food on sand. I will also soak Pellets in Red Sea AB+ aminos as well for the fish. I will also soak Reef Roids, Gonipower, and Reef Chilly with AB+ as well, corals love an so do tI,- ok
thank you so much my sand sifting goby was having some hard times he would get scared by the other fish so he would not come get the food but I will try the turkey paster and stick it right in his burrow
I have always subscribed in my tanks to the buffet feeding. I find a variety off foods that meet different needs. Sometimes its two foods, sometimes it is 5, but I mix it all. Every feeding is different and the mix will give them more of some nutrients some days, more of another the next.
Love this channel, luckily when i bought my fish food the pet store i went to was knowledgeable and suggested strongly to get vitalis (i did say i wanted a cheaper food as my budget was tight at the time, at the time i suspected an upsell but now i see that it was not :D ). The clown fish i had, got stringy poo! so i did some research and got some frozen food which fixed that issue, so i combine or do one or the other so their diet is more varied!
21 Feed variety, not just for the nutritional value, but becuase if your fish are use to eating a variety of foods, when you run out of 1, they will be use to eating another. Example your fish will only eat frozen. Ever had a fridge go out on you? You cant always run to the store and pick one up. They often have weeks wait for delivery. Running to the store to buy ice all the time sucks. Learned that lesson the hard way with discus.
Can make up custom foods from a mix of these and freeze in ice cube trays of various sizes. Makes it easy to have prepared frozen foods with a little extra vitamins and garlic if you like.
I have: Mag Foxface Black photon clowns Jade wrasse Copper band butterfly Male Swallowtail angelfish Iridis wrasse Lubbock’s wrasse Blue eye tang And we feed 5 cubes of either mysis shrimp or brine shrimp sometimes even a mix once a day and they’re doing alright because we have an established copepod population, we add 1 tbsp pellets and an algae sheet for the tang, Foxface and angelfish and they’re for now thriving from it We want an Achilles tang but we only have a 4ft and we’re gunna skip that 5ft and go for a 6ft 264g (1000 litre) tank just to have perfect parameters and enough swimming room for one
From what I understand, thawing and refreezing foods denatures the proteins, too, making it less nutritious for your fish. I had a green mandarin and was buying two or three bottles of Tigger Pods a month for him, but eventually he figured out that the NLS Small Fish pellets i was giving my clowns were pretty tasty. He did great on them.
I’ve made a mistake with a couple of young tangs and a rabbit fish. I was told what food to buy and they weren’t specifically for herbivores. They’re not growing very fast I’ve had them 4-5 months. The food I have was ones with mainly protein and fat etc. is this why they’re not growing much or do they generally not grow a lot over that period of time?
I wouldn't expect a significant amount of growth in such a short period of time. That said, proper nutrition is vitally important to the long term survival and health of these fish. When it comes to tangs and rabbit fish, most of them will eat meaty foods, even though it's not what is best for them. This is when it's important that you regularly offer foods like nori seaweed sheets or seaweed pellets at least once per day. It's not too late to start feeding the proper foods!
Turkey basters are one of our favorite tools. If you need something longer, Julian's Thing is a great tool. www.bulkreefsupply.com/julian-s-thing-multi-use-tool-two-little-fishies.html
I have a flame hawk that looks full size my hubby got for me that isnt eatting well. He is extremely shy and hides all the time, I believe because he was captured at an older age! From now on I will only get babies or tank raised. How can i get him out to eat? We made a mistake of giving him live shrimp my LFS gave me. Maybe she knew he wasnt eatting well! I hate feeding live fish, but so much hits the sand and I have to keep putting my hands in to pull out with a turkey baster. I have lots of new corals n sand bed now so I cant even get the xtra food out! He has always had a blotchy coloration. Not solid red but paler towards the bottom of his body! I only have 2 other small fish in the 36 gallon so I dont know why he is so scared one is a clown and a yellow tail damsel. Both friendly fish! Any advice? Should I keep giving live food? Could he be spoiled from that? He tore after the live shrimp. Some days he only gets maybe 3 small pellets and 30 on floor! The damsel loves to spit out food as well, and sort of plays with it, so I keep feeding in hopes to draw him out!
How do you approach feeding anemones? I only feed shrimp but have tried squid. They seem to take the shrimp better but is it enough nutrition? Once a week?
If you're going to spot feed anemones, use small foods like Mysis shrimp. If you use large chunks, the anemone won't be able to digest it and will almost always spit it out. Most anemones don't actually need to be spot fed, so once per week should be plenty.
If you're using pre-portioned cubes, half a cube per day should do the trick. In your case, I'd suggest adding the food slowly so that the fish can eat it before it gets into your filtration.
It will depend on the type of fish you're feeding. If they're carnivores, brine shrimp is an ok option. If you're keeping herbivores like tangs, you'll need to supplement with plant based foods.
I only have 2 small Ocellaris clownfish, and having trouble with type of food.. I pre soak pellets because that makes it more easy for them to digest... what other options are there? The pellets are small but they still seem to big for the fish
If you want to keep feeding pellets, check out the TDO pellets on our website. They're offered in a whole host of sizes, from almost powder like to large pellets. For my clowns, I like to use their "small" size.
Ok, I'll bite. I have 4 clowns, flame angel, yellow tail pygmy, 2 fighting conchs, and a variety of hermits and snails. I usually feed them 1/2 tspn of NLS Marine Fish pellets a day or Hikari BIO-Pure Spirulina Brine Shrimp. For this, I'm not sure if I give enough. I take 10ml of tank water and dissolve 1 cube. I normally feed about 1/2 of that a day. Sometimes I will skip a day of any feeding. I don't go by the feed enough for them to eat for 2-3 minutes mentality. Most of what I feed ends up on the bottom anyways. I will turn off all 3 power heads in my 60 gallon cube during feeding, while leaving on the sump and return pump. Is there a general rule of thumb to follow with the fish I have and foods I feed that I should be following?
If there is a lot of uneaten food left over on the bottom of the tank, you may be feeding too much in one sitting. Maybe break up your feedings into two feedings per day with half the amount in each feeding instead?
If you're that afraid, pay the extra 2 dollar premium for a trusted brand. If you don't know what's in the food, trust the success of these guys giving you advice so that you can have similar results. You can't be exceptional when you start out, but you can learn and emulate success and eventually be successful. Then you can determine for yourself if you still think rinsing the food is worth it. That's how I view it
Truth is, there are very few flake foods that we recommend for marine fish. BUT, Piscine Energetics and Two Little Fishes both make great flake foods (The PE is more geared towards carnivores and the TLF is more geared towards herbivores). www.bulkreefsupply.com/30g-flake-saltwater-fish-food-piscine-energetics.html www.bulkreefsupply.com/sea-veggies-flakes.html
I don't have an ETA on our next order quite yet, but if you hit that 'notify me when in stock' button on the MP40 page, we can shoot over an email when we get more
the tank that is behind you in this, do you have a video that goes through what is in that setup, it looks awesome. [also learning a lot from you guys, I hope :D ]
We actually never did a build series on that tank, but it's a Red Sea Max S-400 aquarium. It comes with nearly everything you need to get up and running like the tank/stand itself, lights, skimmer, power center, filter socks, gravity ATO, and even some in-tank circulation pumps. The link below has more info if you wanted to check it out. www.bulkreefsupply.com/max-s-400-led-complete-reef-system-red-sea.html
@@BRStv Thanks while I am more interested in what is in the tank, I do appreciate the info. As I am in Australia, I will get my hardware locally most likely
Vitamin with all feedings, garlic and vitamin soaked into all my frozen foods. As with anthias I was told that feeding twice a day is good enough? I did have an auto feeder but it was causing my nitrates to shoot up so it was removed. Lights come on at 10am and off at 10pm. I dont feed before work. So is it okay to only feed when I'm off at 4 and then again at 9?
That's 19 hours in between feedings? For that kind of fish I would think that would be stressful. I just can't see that fish being optimally healthy with that schedule. I don't own one, but have always been told several feedings a day to those fish is ideal. Why can't you drop something in the tank in the morning at least?
@@michaelsloan930 Gotcha. Hmmm...I just don't know if 2 enriched feedings supplements the action of eating regularly through the day or not??? I guess just keep an eye on their swimming and color. If it were me, I would be figuring out how to get more to them during the early day. But like I said...I don't have any of these fish. Good luck Michael.
Lots of great options out there. We most often use the Reef Nutrition Chroma Boost pellets, Crossover diet, PE pellets, or Hikari Seaweed Extreme, depending on the nutritional needs of the fish we're feeding.
Can I feed my fish a McDonald's? Not a burger. Obviously. I'm not stupid. Is filet-o-fish ok? I know it wasn't good for the fish in the filet-o-fish. But, he wasn't my pet. If he was, he'd still be alive and I'd be feeding him the filet-o-fish, instead of the fish I have now. Also, I have a question about saltwater fish because they keep dying for some reason. So far, I have bought about 10 goldfish. Every goldfish I buy dies within hours. At first, I naturally suspected the fish store was selling unhealthy fish. So, I went to a different fish store and it was the same! What are the odds of finding two... (two then, six now)... six disreputable fish stores in a row? All I want is a nice saltwater goldfish. I want to feed him a McDonald's and let the cat swim with him. I will call him George XI. Even if it's a girl goldfish, I'll still call it George XI. They all look the bloody same. And, a fish doesn't know what sex it is. Thank you for your special help and sexy advice. My cat says hi. However, I refuse to ask the question it wants me to ask you. If I did, you would think I was crazy. Or, a foreigner.
@18:00 after some trial and error I have fallen in love with tangs. I can also concur that offering them nori with a veggie mag clip next to some flow is essential at least every once in a while. The good nori from the store. Not wild nori or any other nori. I lost one blue tang so I dove in and researched all I could. Now I'm here. My yellow tang is doing great. Also considered a little more hardy than the powder blues. Tangs are awesome in my opinion. I love their grazing always active nature. More similar to myself. lol.
These guys have helped me in my first 6 months of having a new tank so much.... They're literally the wiki/howto of fish... Period, hands down... Brilliant guys...
I could not agree more
This one made my day. I haven't lost a fish yet, and all of them are super super healthy. Glad to know I am doing something right.
PPPPPPPPLLLLLLLLL YP...
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@@brynchef What?
@@brynchef Guess you dont reply back when you make statements 🙄
I always reply.
@@Definitelynotacelebrity Well that a good thing hahah
I feed vitalis flake/pellets...also nori and brine shrimp with garlic... and never once have I had a disease and I’ve had my regal and others since they were babies 5 years ago
I have a mated pair of Diamond Gobies. They eat daily. I turn all of the pumps off so the water is still. I start with flakes for the clowns, Tang, etc. I then take a large pinch of Pellets (1.2 mm or smaller) and submerge my fingers in the water. Then the Pellets slowly fall and the normal fish eat them on the way down and most of them fall on the sand bed. The gobies quickly go to work eating the Pellets. The flakes or frozen will also fall down eventually and they will eat that as well. Leave the pumps off for 15 or 20 min to let them consume the food on sand. I will also soak Pellets in Red Sea AB+ aminos as well for the fish. I will also soak Reef Roids, Gonipower, and Reef Chilly with AB+ as well, corals love an so do tI,- ok
thank you so much my sand sifting goby was having some hard times he would get scared by the other fish so he would not come get the food but I will try the turkey paster and stick it right in his burrow
I have always subscribed in my tanks to the buffet feeding. I find a variety off foods that meet different needs. Sometimes its two foods, sometimes it is 5, but I mix it all. Every feeding is different and the mix will give them more of some nutrients some days, more of another the next.
Love this channel, luckily when i bought my fish food the pet store i went to was knowledgeable and suggested strongly to get vitalis (i did say i wanted a cheaper food as my budget was tight at the time, at the time i suspected an upsell but now i see that it was not :D ). The clown fish i had, got stringy poo! so i did some research and got some frozen food which fixed that issue, so i combine or do one or the other so their diet is more varied!
21
Feed variety, not just for the nutritional value, but becuase if your fish are use to eating a variety of foods, when you run out of 1, they will be use to eating another.
Example your fish will only eat frozen. Ever had a fridge go out on you? You cant always run to the store and pick one up. They often have weeks wait for delivery.
Running to the store to buy ice all the time sucks. Learned that lesson the hard way with discus.
Thanks guys. Keep it up. It’s nice to always look for room improvement. Look no further than than BRS-TV!!!
Hi RYAN and RANDY!!!
Wow, such a great, informative video. Good stuff!
Can make up custom foods from a mix of these and freeze in ice cube trays of various sizes. Makes it easy to have prepared frozen foods with a little extra vitamins and garlic if you like.
I have a Sleeper Goby and a Lawnmower Blenny, and I give them a pinch of Omega One flakes a day. Nothing bad so far!
My fish love the sea weed extreme when they see that bag they get to the spot where I feed
I'm one of those crazy people that feed pellets and frozen food through my return chamber. 😮
Great place to get products and information. Thanks guys for all the help.
I have:
Mag Foxface
Black photon clowns
Jade wrasse
Copper band butterfly
Male Swallowtail angelfish
Iridis wrasse
Lubbock’s wrasse
Blue eye tang
And we feed 5 cubes of either mysis shrimp or brine shrimp sometimes even a mix once a day and they’re doing alright because we have an established copepod population, we add 1 tbsp pellets and an algae sheet for the tang, Foxface and angelfish and they’re for now thriving from it
We want an Achilles tang but we only have a 4ft and we’re gunna skip that 5ft and go for a 6ft 264g (1000 litre) tank just to have perfect parameters and enough swimming room for one
You should start a UA-cam channel about fish I’ll sub
@@coolcandyfish1359 Oo, I might do that now we have a Scott’s wrasse
15: Don't mix food size in an autofeeder.
I think it works kind of okay with auger type feeders.
Great video guys 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻🇬🇧
tdo packs are 90 dollars in nz
This reminds me of a QVC infomercial. 😂👍🏻
Brilliant info thanks guys
I feed my guys tuna and other fish off the dock in boston. . When it comes in I gut it and chop it and cube it. Blenderize for liquid. No crap.
Need a frozen, small size, multi food (shrimp, worm, algae, coral food). I’ve seen some large size ones but could use a suggestion on small stuff.
Check out Rod's herbivore blend 🙂
Third! And once again a great and informative video!
From what I understand, thawing and refreezing foods denatures the proteins, too, making it less nutritious for your fish. I had a green mandarin and was buying two or three bottles of Tigger Pods a month for him, but eventually he figured out that the NLS Small Fish pellets i was giving my clowns were pretty tasty. He did great on them.
12:07 that hermit is killing the snail RIGHT NOW. Probably to steal its shell.
I’ve made a mistake with a couple of young tangs and a rabbit fish. I was told what food to buy and they weren’t specifically for herbivores. They’re not growing very fast I’ve had them 4-5 months. The food I have was ones with mainly protein and fat etc. is this why they’re not growing much or do they generally not grow a lot over that period of time?
And if so, have I stunted their growth?
I wouldn't expect a significant amount of growth in such a short period of time. That said, proper nutrition is vitally important to the long term survival and health of these fish. When it comes to tangs and rabbit fish, most of them will eat meaty foods, even though it's not what is best for them. This is when it's important that you regularly offer foods like nori seaweed sheets or seaweed pellets at least once per day. It's not too late to start feeding the proper foods!
Curious to see your sand sifting feeding tools.. Dealing with this right now and trying to find ways to get food to a goby.
Turkey basters are one of our favorite tools. If you need something longer, Julian's Thing is a great tool.
www.bulkreefsupply.com/julian-s-thing-multi-use-tool-two-little-fishies.html
21:53 Whats this fish called?
If Jay from Jay and Silent Bob got into fish instead of heroin, you would have a twin.
I have a flame hawk that looks full size my hubby got for me that isnt eatting well. He is extremely shy and hides all the time, I believe because he was captured at an older age! From now on I will only get babies or tank raised. How can i get him out to eat? We made a mistake of giving him live shrimp my LFS gave me. Maybe she knew he wasnt eatting well! I hate feeding live fish, but so much hits the sand and I have to keep putting my hands in to pull out with a turkey baster. I have lots of new corals n sand bed now so I cant even get the xtra food out! He has always had a blotchy coloration. Not solid red but paler towards the bottom of his body! I only have 2 other small fish in the 36 gallon so I dont know why he is so scared one is a clown and a yellow tail damsel. Both friendly fish! Any advice? Should I keep giving live food? Could he be spoiled from that? He tore after the live shrimp. Some days he only gets maybe 3 small pellets and 30 on floor! The damsel loves to spit out food as well, and sort of plays with it, so I keep feeding in hopes to draw him out!
How do you approach feeding anemones? I only feed shrimp but have tried squid. They seem to take the shrimp better but is it enough nutrition? Once a week?
If you're going to spot feed anemones, use small foods like Mysis shrimp. If you use large chunks, the anemone won't be able to digest it and will almost always spit it out. Most anemones don't actually need to be spot fed, so once per week should be plenty.
How often and how much frozen food would suggest feeding a small pair of clownfish?
If you're using pre-portioned cubes, half a cube per day should do the trick. In your case, I'd suggest adding the food slowly so that the fish can eat it before it gets into your filtration.
Im only give them brine shrimp, it is okay?
Im not using pelet anymore because polute water
It will depend on the type of fish you're feeding. If they're carnivores, brine shrimp is an ok option. If you're keeping herbivores like tangs, you'll need to supplement with plant based foods.
@@BRStv thx u, now i feed them with nori n brine shrimp,
I only have 2 small Ocellaris clownfish, and having trouble with type of food.. I pre soak pellets because that makes it more easy for them to digest... what other options are there? The pellets are small but they still seem to big for the fish
If you want to keep feeding pellets, check out the TDO pellets on our website. They're offered in a whole host of sizes, from almost powder like to large pellets. For my clowns, I like to use their "small" size.
@@BRStv .... Thank you very much for replying, you guys truly are the best source for honest info out there
Ok, I'll bite. I have 4 clowns, flame angel, yellow tail pygmy, 2 fighting conchs, and a variety of hermits and snails. I usually feed them 1/2 tspn of NLS Marine Fish pellets a day or Hikari BIO-Pure Spirulina Brine Shrimp. For this, I'm not sure if I give enough. I take 10ml of tank water and dissolve 1 cube. I normally feed about 1/2 of that a day. Sometimes I will skip a day of any feeding. I don't go by the feed enough for them to eat for 2-3 minutes mentality. Most of what I feed ends up on the bottom anyways. I will turn off all 3 power heads in my 60 gallon cube during feeding, while leaving on the sump and return pump. Is there a general rule of thumb to follow with the fish I have and foods I feed that I should be following?
If there is a lot of uneaten food left over on the bottom of the tank, you may be feeding too much in one sitting. Maybe break up your feedings into two feedings per day with half the amount in each feeding instead?
Hi,
not rinsing the frozen food ?
I'm always a bit afraid of the bad things that can be in the frozen food or water.
Greetings
Pat
If you're that afraid, pay the extra 2 dollar premium for a trusted brand. If you don't know what's in the food, trust the success of these guys giving you advice so that you can have similar results. You can't be exceptional when you start out, but you can learn and emulate success and eventually be successful. Then you can determine for yourself if you still think rinsing the food is worth it. That's how I view it
You can certainly rinse it if you like, but I like to think of the very small particles as free coral food :)
Are you
Not recommending flakes?
Truth is, there are very few flake foods that we recommend for marine fish. BUT, Piscine Energetics and Two Little Fishes both make great flake foods (The PE is more geared towards carnivores and the TLF is more geared towards herbivores).
www.bulkreefsupply.com/30g-flake-saltwater-fish-food-piscine-energetics.html
www.bulkreefsupply.com/sea-veggies-flakes.html
Wait? It's perfectly fine to just drop a cube of frozen food I to the tank without thawing it first?
A vast majority of reefers will thaw it first, but that's an option too
Any idea when you will have more mp40s in stock?
I don't have an ETA on our next order quite yet, but if you hit that 'notify me when in stock' button on the MP40 page, we can shoot over an email when we get more
How long will frozen food last in fridge?
48 hours shouldn't be an issue.
the tank that is behind you in this, do you have a video that goes through what is in that setup, it looks awesome.
[also learning a lot from you guys, I hope :D ]
We actually never did a build series on that tank, but it's a Red Sea Max S-400 aquarium. It comes with nearly everything you need to get up and running like the tank/stand itself, lights, skimmer, power center, filter socks, gravity ATO, and even some in-tank circulation pumps. The link below has more info if you wanted to check it out.
www.bulkreefsupply.com/max-s-400-led-complete-reef-system-red-sea.html
@@BRStv Thanks
while I am more interested in what is in the tank, I do appreciate the info.
As I am in Australia, I will get my hardware locally most likely
Vitamin with all feedings, garlic and vitamin soaked into all my frozen foods. As with anthias I was told that feeding twice a day is good enough? I did have an auto feeder but it was causing my nitrates to shoot up so it was removed. Lights come on at 10am and off at 10pm. I dont feed before work. So is it okay to only feed when I'm off at 4 and then again at 9?
That's 19 hours in between feedings? For that kind of fish I would think that would be stressful. I just can't see that fish being optimally healthy with that schedule. I don't own one, but have always been told several feedings a day to those fish is ideal. Why can't you drop something in the tank in the morning at least?
@@Litrocks13 they're not out in the morning due to lighting schedule.
@@michaelsloan930 Gotcha. Hmmm...I just don't know if 2 enriched feedings supplements the action of eating regularly through the day or not??? I guess just keep an eye on their swimming and color. If it were me, I would be figuring out how to get more to them during the early day. But like I said...I don't have any of these fish. Good luck Michael.
That sounds like a solid plan!
Best pellets these days ?
Lots of great options out there. We most often use the Reef Nutrition Chroma Boost pellets, Crossover diet, PE pellets, or Hikari Seaweed Extreme, depending on the nutritional needs of the fish we're feeding.
2nd?
Can I feed my fish a McDonald's? Not a burger. Obviously. I'm not stupid. Is filet-o-fish ok? I know it wasn't good for the fish in the filet-o-fish. But, he wasn't my pet. If he was, he'd still be alive and I'd be feeding him the filet-o-fish, instead of the fish I have now.
Also, I have a question about saltwater fish because they keep dying for some reason. So far, I have bought about 10 goldfish. Every goldfish I buy dies within hours. At first, I naturally suspected the fish store was selling unhealthy fish. So, I went to a different fish store and it was the same! What are the odds of finding two... (two then, six now)... six disreputable fish stores in a row?
All I want is a nice saltwater goldfish. I want to feed him a McDonald's and let the cat swim with him. I will call him George XI. Even if it's a girl goldfish, I'll still call it George XI. They all look the bloody same. And, a fish doesn't know what sex it is.
Thank you for your special help and sexy advice. My cat says hi. However, I refuse to ask the question it wants me to ask you. If I did, you would think I was crazy. Or, a foreigner.
😂😆
First! :D